'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' and Europe's Champion First-Season Sire of 2024 Sergei Prokofiev (Scat Daddy–Orchard Beach, by Tapit) will return home to Ontario to stand at stud at Ballycroy Bloodstock, David Anderson of Anderson Farm announced Tuesday. The news was first reported by Canadian Thoroughbred.
Originally bred in Ontario by Anderson, the 9-year-old son of Scat Daddy was a $1,100,000 Keeneland September grad in 2017 to Coolmore's M.V. Magnier and he carried the blue and orange silks to victory at second asking to earn his 'Rising Star' status at Navan in 2018.
As a juvenile, he won the G3 Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes and placed in the G2 Coventry Stakes but also made a pair of trips to America, contesting both the GI Keeneland Phoenix Stakes (fifth) and the then-listed Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (eighth). After winning another stakes as a 3-year-old, he finished his racing career with a record of 14-4-1-1.
He retired to stud at Whitsbury Manor Stud in England and had 53 winners from his first two crops led by G1SW Arizona Blaze. He was named the Champion First-Season Sire for 2024 in Europe.
“I obviously followed him throughout his career,” Anderson said of his new acquisition.” Through [both] his racing career and then onto his stallion career with Whitsbury Manor also. It's an honor to get him back. Those are two great operations who did all the heavy lifting–first Coolmore and then Whitsbury who did an amazing job getting so many mares to this horse and really proving him.”
Ballycrox Bloodstock currently stands three stallions, Collusion Illusion (Twirling Candy), Gamble's Exchange (Exchange Rate) and Tamarkuz (Speightstown).
“I think this is an opportunity that we [Canadians] haven't seen in decades,” Anderson continued. “To get a young, 9-year-old horse by Scat Daddy. He's a tremendous-looking horse that has commercial appeal but throws racehorses and is throwing them on not only turf but also synthetic and dirt as well. I think he'll have a lot of appeal not just north of the border but also south of the border as well.”
Anderson added that Sergei Prokofiev would be on a plane next week to Kentucky where, after he complete his quarantine, he'll ship north to Ontario.
“We're hoping that once he's out of quarantine, we'll get him up to Canada [for breeders to inspect] near mid January,” he said.
Sergei Prokofiev will stand his first season in Ontario for $10,000 CDN.
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